Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 07 December 2013
Among the patents granted to Facebook this week by the USPTO is one for Inferring Household Income for Users of a Social Networking System. 'For example,' Facebook explains, 'an assumption might be made about a user that reads CNN.com and nytimes.com every day that the user is in a higher income bracket.
Yet advertisers wonder why people start to hate that business more and more and install Adblock, Ghostery, block cookies and are interested in VPN services.